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| | Istria on the Internet - History - Attila the Hun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | They found Attila dead from a flow of blood, unwounded, and the girl with downcast look weeping beneath her veil. |
 | | Then, as is the custom of that race, they cut off part of their hair and disfigured their faces horribly with deep wounds so that the distinguished warrior might be bewailed, not with feminine lamentations and tears, but with manly blood. |
 | | Concerning this event, it happened miraculously to Marcian, emperor of the East, who was disturbed about his fierce enemy, that a divinity standing near him in his dreams showed the bow of Attila broken that very night, as if the Huns owed much to this weapon. |
| www.istrianet.org /istria/history/huns-goths/attila-death.htm (1862 words) |
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